Just came across this video while randomly browsing youtube!...Classic!

Phil Ivey v Paul Jackson - Ultimate Bluff v Bluff

• Poker is... a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature.
  
• Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame.  Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life.
  
• The most common mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time.
  
• If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.
  
• I never win with that hand, but it's one of my favorites
  
• If you reraise a raiser, and he doesn't raise you back, you know he has kicker problems.
  
• To succeed in life surround yourself with geniuses; to succeed in poker surround yourself with morons.
  
• When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience.
  
• People who chase straights and flushes get to go home on trains and buses.

So where do I start....

Recently playing online poker as I do on many a night, I won't mention the site, ..had been playing for about 2hrs and to my amazement I was up 800% on my initial $50 starting chips. The table was no-limit Holdem and with blinds of $.50 and $1, with a maximum re-load of $50.

6-player table of which 4 players came and went like pawns, except the guy sitting next to me who seemed to be almost professional, for some reason he always seemed to have just a little more cash then me!
We built up a respect, I got to know his game and visa-versa. If either of us raised the other would fold, or re-raise and then the other fold.
I can't deny, my aggressive streak came out amongst the other 4 players knowing my stack will scare them into folding if I raise, and  with some great play (I mean luck) I couldn't lose!

So i'm slowly getting to the point where I should run with my winnings, but im hit with a pair of 99's, so being the last to bet I analyse whats 'the score' ... Three people call the blind, so I call $1 too, with four people in im not gonna risk any cash seeing as im about to leave!
The guy beside me with the highest stack, small blind, raises to $3 which promptly causes everyone else to fold.... so its just me left, with a pair of 99's. I thought maybe he had A 9 or A 10 maybe even A Q so I raised him $7 thinking he would just fold, i'd take the $14 or so and be on my way, but he called!
The Flop : 2 2 4
Great flop I thought, then he instantly bet $14! Many thoughts run through your head at this point, does he have a 2? No he can't have a 2. Pair of 4's? Why would he bet $14 if he had A Q... So seeing as I hade a large stack why not one last hand with him, call and see what the Turn is and see how he acts. So in goes my $14 call...
The Turn : 9!
Wow I got the Full House 9's over 2's. I thought this will be such a nice win to end the day! ... He bets $50!!
Ive Got the second best hand and no way does he have Duce's....I raised $100
He raised $100....
I went All-In...He went all in...$805 pot on the table... I knew by this point he had the pocket 4's and the only card that could beat me was another 4!
River hits!.... Its a 4! He wins with four of a kind .. Four 4's

My bad luck story!
If you have one it would great to hear it! Then I know its not just me

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